Alex read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and trained at as an actor the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Over the last twenty years he has worked with some the UK’s most distinguished directors of theatre and film, including Sir Peter Hall, Sir Richard Eyre, Tom Hooper, Peter Kosminsky, Benjamin Caron, Toby Haynes and Richard Laxton – as well as a raft of equally distinguished actors including Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Ruth Wilson and Dominic West.

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Alex’s television credits include two final seasons of the multiple Golden Globe and Emmy award winning The Crown (Netflix) playing Stephen Lamport, private secretary to the Prince of Wales; a memorable turn in the Emmy-nominated Andor (Disney+); another memorable appearance in the Golden Globe and Emmy winner Chernobyl (HBO/Sky); and another well-remembered appearance in the BAFTA-nominated Mrs Wilson (BBC); as well as X Company (CBC); The Crimson Field (BBC); New Tricks (BBC); Holby City (BBC) and the BAFTA-winning television film Random (C4); the BAFTA and Emmy award winning television film Longford (HBO); Prime Suspect VII (ITV); Pinochet’s Last Stand (C4) and the BAFTA winning television film The Government Inspector (C4).

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In Spring 2024 Alex will return to our television screens in a major six-part drama for ITV. Directed by BAFTA winner Richard Laxton and starring Sophie Turner Joan follows the real-life story of Joan Hannington and her rise through the criminal underworld in 1980s London which has been adapted for the screen by BAFTA-nominee Anna Symon.

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Alex’s feature film credits include Finding Your Feet directed by Richard Loncraine; The Children Act directed by Sir Richard Eyre; Chatroom directed by Hideo Nakata and Amazing Grace directed by the late, great Michael Apted.

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Alex’s most recent theatre credits include the first ever staging of Albert Camus’ novel L’Etranger in English, adapted by Ben Okri for the Coronet in Notting Hill; Stravinsky’s L’Histoire Du Soldat directed by Alessandro Talevi for Opera di Firenze; Torvald in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House directed by Rachel O’Riordan for the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, as well as Alan Bennett’s Single Spies (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Henry IV Parts I & II directed by Sir Peter Hall for the Theatre Royal in Bath); Antony & Cleopatra directed by Janet Suzman for the Playhouse in Liverpool and An Enemy of the People directed by Daniel Evans at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.